Hi Derek - yes I have it and there are a few 'issues' despite all
their marketing hype:
you _do_ need to redesign your layouts for the smaller screen of
course but FMtouch doesn't listen to their own guidelines (well they
aren't exactly their own but are recommended by them). There is a
table view available on FM-touch that is almost unreadable because of
the font size but also their use of margins; or lack of them. But
table views translated to FMtouch behave more like List-view layouts
with only one record viewable at a time. I haven't chased this up on
any of the forums yet.
Synch with a reasonable sized DB does take time - I have a DB with
about 36k records in one of its tables and the initial sync takes
probably 20min although I haven't timed it precisely, preferring to
let it get on with it. Any changes in your layouts involve wiping all
the data and resynching.
I have another DB that really should be in the main DB but hasn't got
there yet mainly because it works quite fine that way as an external
DB on the laptop; not so on FMtouch. So until I sort that out I am
living with missing fields. Some fields don't behave as you'd like
either: I have a scrollable text field that is very unpredictable on
the iPhone. The scroll bar is not visible so there is considerable
frustration in jumping between edit mode and browse when you try to
read it; for some reason it seems to have become fixed at about 2
lines in the FMtouch version of the layout and there also seems to be
a problem with moving between records with the text in that field
persisting from one record to the next! Weird stuff!
Scripting and calculated fields are not fully supported as you'll know
but they are improving. And there is integration with resident apps
like your address book and Mail; and Safari if you want it.
So far I am only using FMtouch to look stuff up not to edit or add
records so my needs are pretty simple but even so I have a way to go
before I can say I'm happy with it…
I suppose on the positive side (for me) - it only cost $75 when I
bought it ;)
And I've grown fonder of FM Mobile (in all its simplicity) that I
still use occasionally on the Palm
peter meyer
0408 902349
pmo...@people.net.au
On 06/02/2009, at 7:51 AM, Derek Y-E wrote:
Hi Wamug folks.
Has anyone tried at FMTouch yet, for running Filemaker apps on the
iPhone / iPod Touch?
http://www.fmtouch.com/
Cheers,
Derek
PS. $89.99. Ouch.
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